Our Team
Carlo Traversi - Founder and Owner
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: All the amazing people I’ve had the opportunity to meet, work with, and climb with in the process of building this wonderful facility.
What Climbing Means to Me: I’ve dedicated the decades of my life to climbing and it has captured my mind and heart in so many ways. The climbing community is my global family. The cliffs, crags, boulders, and climbing gyms feel like home.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: Work hard, be honest, and treat others with respect.
My Favorite Place to Climb: Yosemite, CA.
Devan Gutierrez - Director of Route Setting
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Coming soon!
What Climbing Means to Me: I've been climbing since 2011 and routesetting since 2012. Since then I've created lifelong connections with people all over, and that's what climbing/routesetting is to me! It's connecting with people through a shared passion and expressing oneself through movement....and doing stuff that makes you feel cool.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: Follow your passion(s) and everything else will fall into place.
My Favorite Place to Climb: Tough! I'd say either Squamish, BC or Bishop, CA.
Sarah Lindner - Director of Operations
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Coming soon!
What Climbing Means to Me: Bouldering has offered me focus, patience, challenge, and community.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: Make time.
My Favorite Place to Climb: I really enjoyed the Happy Boulders in Bishop! It’s not hard to come by stunning views there, but I particularly appreciated being able to try out some of the taller boulders and feeling a new type of discomfort. Positively thrilling.
Jonathan Konkel - General Manager
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Coming soon!
What Climbing Means to Me: I started climbing at 25 years old and never looked back. The most rewarding and addicting lifestyle I've ever been a part of. The community is so accepting and has given me lifelong friendships.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: You'll never soar with the eagles if you surround yourself with all these turkeys.
My Favorite Place to Climb: Anywhere in Tahoe.
Lukas Hall - Assistant General Manager
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Coming soon!
What Climbing Means to Me: I’m grateful for climbing because it connects me to nature and the earth. Climbing has allowed me to meet so many inspiring people and visit beautiful places. I love flowing on the wall. It’s my biggest passion and I love it so much!
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: Be honest in all things.
My Favorite Place to Climb: Tahoe, Bishop, The Sonoma Coast, The Boulder Field and The Stack of course!
Ryan Gouche - Facilities Assistant
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: My most memorable moment so far at TSD has been the staff climb night. It was super fun to climb with everyone in the space for the first time.
What Climbing Means to Me: Climbing is my favorite hobby ever! Along with improving my physical health and strength, going climbing always helps me relax mentally as well.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: My granddad would always say, “your attitude determines your altitude.”
My Favorite Place to Climb: I started climbing in indoor gyms and always love to go to a new gym I’ve never been to before.
Anaii Zamora-Arias - Desk Associate, Cafe Barista
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Meeting my new coworkers : ) I’m excited to get to know them better and share our love for climbing with all our new members at The Stack Davis.
What Climbing Means to Me: Climbing is my peace when I’m having a bad day. It’s something that you’re constantly solving new problems and finding what strategies work best for you to send.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: “Not everyday is a send day.” This goes beyond climbing because sometimes you’re gonna have bad days where you don’t feel your strongest. But the fact that you’re still trying is something to be proud about.
My Favorite Place to Climb: Mosaic, The Boulder Field, Rocknasium and THE STACKKKK!
Caspian Dritz - Desk Associate, Cafe Barista
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Coming soon!
What Climbing Means to Me: Climbing is a challenge for my mind and body. It provides time for me to focus, meditate, and learn, while also opening the doors to wonderful people and experiences.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: When you hurry through something, that means you no longer care about it and want to move on to other things.
My Favorite Place to Climb: Coming soon!
Eliana McLaughlin - Desk Associate, Cafe Barista
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: My most memorable moment at TSD would have to be my interview. I immediately felt welcomed and comfortable—not how interviews usually feel! It was really meaningful to connect with others over the importance and unique sense of community that climbing creates.
What Climbing Means to Me: I’ve been climbing on and off since I was 9 or 10 years old. It served as my community then, and continues to a decade later. Climbing has been an integral part of my life—I’ve met some of my closest friends through the sport, and it has continually pushed me to challenge myself in ways I otherwise wouldn’t have.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: “To be liked by everyone is to be known by nobody.”
My Favorite Place to Climb: Anywhere with a fun-looking wall.
Ian Ferrer - Desk Associate, Cafe Barista
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Coming soon!
What Climbing Means to Me: Coming soon!
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: Coming soon!
My Favorite Place to Climb: Coming soon!
John Villa - Desk Associate
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Daydreaming about sessions on the Kilter Board.
What Climbing Means to Me: Climbing is a way for me to test myself physically and mentally while also having fun. Aside from that climbing is community and my happy place.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: Go out there and fail, in order to succeed you must fail many times.
My Favorite Place to Climb: Leavenworth, WA
Joshua Simons - Desk Associate, Cafe Barista
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Coming soon!
What Climbing Means to Me: Coming soon!
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: Coming soon!
My Favorite Place to Climb: Coming soon!
Karene Liu - Cafe Barista, Desk Associate
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Coming soon!
What Climbing Means to Me: Climbing is a fun and rewarding way to challenge and improve myself and build confidence in my own body; it keeps me physically grounded. It also offers a wonderfully friendly and diverse community.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: As long as you’re learning, you’re not failing.
My Favorite Place to Climb: Coming soon!
Katie Hirzy - Desk Associate, Cafe Barista
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Being able to be part of the new team that gets to welcome TSD to the Davis community. From our first day seeing the space on our training day to opening day, it’s so cool to see the growth already! It’s going to be really fun to watch the TSD continue to grow and to be part of it!
What Climbing Means to Me: I am new to climbing but I think it’s a good way to have fun, meet new people, and of course get a good workout from climbing! It’s also a good way to challenge your self!
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: The best advice I have ever received would be to take one day at a time and enjoy every part of life.
My Favorite Place to Climb: I’m new to climbing but of course it’s The Stack Davis!
Katya Yanovska - Desk Associate, Cafe Barista, Programs Instructor
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Coming soon!
What Climbing Means to Me: Challenging myself both mentally and physically and constantly pushing my limits.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: "Just go up!" (It never works.)
My Favorite Place to Climb: Coming soon!
Kaylee Ball - Desk Associate, Cafe Barista, Programs Instructor
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Coming soon!
What Climbing Means to Me: To me climbing is not only a full body and mind workout, it is my community. It is a way to foster not only physical health but my mental health. I love the social atmosphere that climbing creates as it connects people over such a wonderful sport.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: You know yourself best.
My Favorite Place to Climb: Goat Rock and Joshua Tree
Lalique Montesini - Desk Associate, Cafe Barista, Programs Instructor
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Coming soon!
What Climbing Means to Me: For me, climbing is a method to tune in with my body and align my system into focus. It’s a way to integrate play into my daily life while also strengthening my body and mind. I find that it boosts not only my self-esteem but also my creativity which then greatly aids me in other facets of my life!
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: Stop trying to be liked by everybody, YOU don’t even like everybody.
My Favorite Place to Climb: Any fun-looking wall or rock I spontaneously come across!
Noah Chavez - Senior Route Setter
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Coming soon!
What Climbing Means to Me: Climbing provides me with endless opportunities to push myself mentally, physically, and creatively.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: Try really hard.
My Favorite Place to Climb: I love climbing in Rainbow, Tahoe more than anybody, except maybe Josh Lowy.
Quinn Brown - Route Setter
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Coming soon!
What Climbing Means to Me: Pushing and pulling and pinching on plastic and also rocks.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
My Favorite Place to Climb: Bishop Buttermilks
Quinn Tran - Desk Associate, Cafe Barista
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: The first thing that popped into my head was our General Manager, Jonathan, doing his best diva walk down the hallway during our training. It was a beautiful moment.
What Climbing Means to Me: Climbing to me is an artform where walls become canvases for creative movement. It has also taught me patience, resilience, and a belief in myself.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: It is not that you haven't reached your goals, it's that you keep pushing them.
My Favorite Place to Climb: I don’t currently have one but I would love to explore outdoor climbing!
Rayy Salazar - Route Setter, Cafe Barista
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: Coming soon!
What Climbing Means to Me: Climbing teaches me how to push my limits and try hard when success is not guaranteed.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: People who say they can and people who say they can’t are both usually right.
My Favorite Place to Climb: Anywhere in Tahoe!
Riley Lucero - Desk Associate, Cafe Barista
My Most Memorable Moment at TSD: My favorite memory at The Stack Davis was stepping into the gym for the first time and seeing all the brand new holds!
What Climbing Means to Me: In a world that is becoming increasingly online, climbing feels like a step in the right direction, where strong friendships and a tight community form organically. Climbing creates powerful and memorable experiences that can’t be replaced in the virtual world.
Best Advice I’ve Ever Received: Protect your sleep at all costs.
My Favorite Place to Climb: The Buttermilks!